Ett Hem Stockholm hotel
Ett Hem (a home in English) is a new hotel in Stockholm situated in a classic townhouse in a peaceful residential area called Lärkstan. Ett Hem just got 12 rooms and each of them are designed individually in a personal and relaxed manner by Ilse Crawford. We wanted to continue the story of this house...
Signature suites by Lagranja Design at the Madera hotel in Hong Kong
Barcelona based design studio Lagranja has just finished the signature suites at the top four floors of a new hotel in Kowloon, a district in Hong Kong and probably the place with the highest population density in the planet. It’s called Hotel Madera, a Spanish name that leaves little room for doubt. An oasis of...
A Good Hotel in San Francisco
When travelling you will find hotels with different identities based on a lot of different thematic ideas. Good Hotel in San Francisco has a nice and important theme – doing good. Creative home made furniture in the reception area, bikes you can borrow, toilets that saves water and wise words here and there. On top...
Warm winter, japanese style.
Commonly referred as nabe (なべ), nabemono (鍋物) is the term referring to all varieties of Japanese one pot dishes. There is nothing as effective to warm the winter like a soup. But in East Asia, it is also believed that sharing from one and the same pot makes for closer relationships. Very much like the...
Gastrologik – a restaurant in Stockholm with high ambitions
The founders of Gastrologik have a mission – to create a good restaurant that is an interaction between the kitchen and service, the food and guests, the premises and the interior, between consciousness and unconsciousness and between logic and gastronomy. This is the philosophy of Jacob Holmström and Anton Bjuhr, two young but highly qualified chefs who stand...
The Aubrey Hotel in Santiago de Chile
When I was in Santiago de Chile a while ago for the Bienal de Diseno I stayed at the very relaxed Aubrey Hotel. It is beautifully situated at a hillside of the 2,800-foot Cerro San Cristobal in bohemian barrio of Bellavista area. Audrey offers pool area for long slow days with your favourite book and drink. The main...
Cowbird – a witness to life
A new online platform has seen the light of day – recently Jonathan Harris launched “Cowbird” a new storytelling site . The intention is to create a community of storytellers, sharing heartfelt, personal stories. You might ask if the world needs another website for uploading images to share with the world… can’t we just use...
Travel snapshots from around the world
We have been travelling quite extensively lately and have just touched base again. Hence a bit slow on updates lately. We have been invited to do keynote presentations, been part of visitor programs, jury and curator work, moderating and chairman assignments, facilitator of workshops and also some events of our own. These activities during the last...
Kanda – Shintoist simplicity, extreme quality and no fuss
The back streets of Roppongi hide a culinary gem, crowned by three Michelin stars and named after Hiroyuki Kanda, its founder and owner. The interior is as minimal as the seats at the bar, where all guests get a chance to stare at the genius at work. Luxury materializes with the charming waiter and the...
Agios Pavlos – in the remote south of Crete
I have a dilemma, as widely common as it is ancient. What do one do when you have something amazing to tell but are confronted with two opposite possibilities – to tell everyone about the fantastic restaurant/shop/remote village in Italy/ or what have you, and risk it losing its allure as the word is spread...
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